Question
Explain four problems encountered in mineral exploitation in Kenya.
Answer
- Local communities are rarely involved hence tend to oppose mining.
- Compensation of the displaced is very expensive and not transparent.
- The local community hardly want to move from their ancestral lands.
- Some areas of mineral potential are unlinked - roads, rail to other parts of the country / poor transport / roads.
- Scarcity of capital for Government to invest in mineral prospecting.
- Minerals are of relatively small quantities to qualify mining hence fetch little capital
- Most minerals are of low value hence fetch low prices.
- Compensation of the displaced is very expensive and not transparent.
- The local community hardly want to move from their ancestral lands.
- Some areas of mineral potential are unlinked - roads, rail to other parts of the country / poor transport / roads.
- Scarcity of capital for Government to invest in mineral prospecting.
- Minerals are of relatively small quantities to qualify mining hence fetch little capital
- Most minerals are of low value hence fetch low prices.
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